Folk, Blues & Jazz
Before that famous moment when Bob Dylan plugged in his guitar and muddied the waters between folk and rock the division between the two was pretty clear. Now the distinction is a bit fuzzier. We include books about jazz, blues and ‘world music’ in this section and you might find the odd book about musical instruments or folk culture in a larger sense. This website is still (and will always be) a work in progress. New sections might appear. Comments and advise are welcome.
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- Cash, Johnny
The Songs of Johnny Cash
£40.00 - Phinney, Kevin
Souled American: How Black Music Transformed White Culture
£16.50 - Nketia, J. H. Kwabena
The Music of Africa
£10.00 - Leigh, Spencer
Halfway to Paradise. Britpop, 1955-1962
£25.00 - Ross, Alex
The Rest is Noise. Listening to the Twentieth Century
£15.00 - Oliver, Paul
The Story of the Blues
£25.00 - Whelan, Pete (ed)
78 Quarterly (no.11): Black Patti
£15.00 - Fox, Jon Hartley
King of the Queen City: The Story of King Records
£25.00 - Bowman, Rob
Soulsville U.S.A.: The Story of Stax Records
£65.00 - Bradley, Andy
House of Hits: The Story of Houston’s Gold Star/SugarHill Recording Studios
£40.00 - Collis, John
Story of Chess Records
£15.00 - Sims, Barbara Barnes
The Next Elvis: Searching for Stardom at Sun Records
£15.00 - Fancourt, Leslie
A Discography of the Blues Artists on the Chess Labels 1947-1975
£20.00 - Fancourt, Leslie
A Discography of the R&B Artists on the Chess Labels 1947-1975
£20.00 - Fancourt, Leslie
Boogie Chillen: A Guide to John Lee Hooker on Disc
£20.00 - Pelletier, Paul M.
London American Recordings: Complete Singles Catalogue 1949-1982
£25.00 - Escott, Colin
Sun Records: The Discography
£40.00 - Zeno Obi Constance
Valentino: Poet and Prophet, Blues and Rebellion
£45.00 - Houghton, Mick
I’ve Always Kept a Unicorn: The Biography of Sandy Denny
£50.00 - Oliver, Paul
Blues Off the Record: 30 Years of Blues Commentary
£18.00 - Escott, Colin
Hank Williams: The Biography
£10.00 - Oliver, Paul
Conversation with the Blues
£35.00 - Schorlau, Wolfgang
Down at Theresa’s…Chicago Blues. The Photographs of Marc PoKempner
£40.00 - Blanas, Frank
The King of Clovis. The Untold Story of Music Producer Norman Petty.The Man Behind Rock ‘n Roll’s Greatest Legends.
£225.00 - Grossman, Stefan
Ragtime Blues Guitarists
£22.50 - Cage, John
Composition in Retrospect
£10.00 - Wishart, Trevor
On Sonic Art
£50.00 - Saladini, Albert
Gueules de Jazz [“Jazz Faces”]
£15.00 - Armstrong, Louis
Swing that Music
£145.00 - Houghton, Mick
I’ve Always Kept a Unicorn: The Biography of Sandy Denny
£150.00 - Kahn, Ashley
Kind Of Blue: The Making Of The Miles Davis Masterpiece
£25.00 - Marcus, Greil
Invisible Republic. Bob Dylan’s Basement Tapes
£17.50 - Clayson, Alan
Jacques Brel: The Biography
£15.00 - Hoskyns, Barney
Across The Great Divide: The Band and America
£11.00 - Abe, K.
Jazz Giants. A Visual Retrospective
£45.00 - Water, Benny
They Key to a Jazzy Life
£31.50 - Gordon, Max
Live at the Village Vanguard
£27.00 - Jaffe, Nigel S.Allenby
European Folk Dance Series: The Netherlands
£25.00 - Mezzrow, Mezz
Really the Blues
£17.50 - Scarborough, Dorothy
On the Trail of Negro Folk-Songs
£25.00 - Fowke, Edith (collected and edited by)
Traditional Singers and Songs from Ontario
£20.00 - Wyman, Loraine
Twenty Kentucky Mountain Songs
£28.00 - Rosenthal, Ethel
The Story of Indian Music and its Instruments: A Study of the Present & A Record of the Past.
£12.00 - Levin, Theodore (with Suzukei, Valentina)
Where Rivers and Mountains Sing: Sound, Music, and Nomadism in Tuva and Beyond
£40.00